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WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

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My dad (Born 1921) used to call 'em "zombies". One of his signature comic tag lines was "Boss! Boss! I smell a Zombie!", which he got from --I believe (?)-- an old Jack Benny & Rochester movie.

I still get the giggles whenever I hear the modern phrase "Zombie Apocalypse". To me it conjures up images of the world ending in a somewhat different way. :p
 

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My dad (Born 1921) used to call 'em "zombies". One of his signature comic tag lines was "Boss! Boss! I smell a Zombie!", which he got from --I believe (?)-- an old Jack Benny & Rochester movie.

I still get the giggles whenever I hear the modern phrase "Zombie Apocalypse". To me it conjures up images of the world ending in a somewhat different way. :p
I like it and might adopt it, with your permission.
 

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An elderly gentleman born 1911 (died 2005) with whom I often used to take tea used the words 'guffle' and 'flatulate'. He would talk openly and frequently about his emissions and as he was a very serious and even humourless person and otherwise very correct and proper, the effect was hilarious.
I, in turn, like using the made-up words fartulent and fartulated. 'I'm afraid I've just fartulated' or 'this curry has made me extremely fartulent'. It's a good merger of the demotic and technical terms.
 

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machine gun n rapid succession of ballistic farts

B.P n Bad Patrol - from the gas generated by fear during military combat

Rapid Fire n repeat action, high velocity, as used by the Royal Marines

ripsnorter v Very loud fart, large quantity of gaseous emmisions
 

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This subject remains intrinsically funny even years after other forms of schoolboy humour have long been forgotten.
At a personal level, I associate it with Corps at school and university, and with a series of particularly boring undergraduate lectures which I would enliven in this way. However I think that it was Geography lessons where my farting techniques were refined - in fact I cannot think about that subject without thinking about farting.
 

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My grandfather, a Marine WW2 vet, blamed barking spiders, the dog, or the nearest grandchild for his frequent......emissions.
My Grandfather had no "fart shame." He would lift one buttock or the other, let one go and say: "Where 'ere you be, let your wind go free." Grandmother, would get quite annoyed, but she always defended him. "Oh you know Granddad and his botty burps," was her favourite remark.
 

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